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Title
Northward view of Broadway from Fifth Street, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a northward view of Broadway from Fifth Street, ca.1925. Broadway runs from the foreground at left to the background at right. Several streetcars and automobiles can be seen on the wide street, and many people can be seen walking on the sidewalks that line the road. Tall buildings are visible along the street in the background, and street lights can be seen in the foreground. An American flag flies from a tall building at center.
Legible signs include, from left: "$10 Save and Upstairs Trade", "West 11th St. to L.A. High", "The Owl Drug Co.", "Keep Right", "No Parking n the Loading Zone 45 Minute Parking 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. No Parking", Vehicles must not stand between here and next corner", "Stop", "Millinery", "Hotel California", "Broadway Dept. Store", "Power off", "California Building", and "Right & Left turn Prohibited".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m24151 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-48617
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24151
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-48617.jpg
Subject
Streets
Department stores
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
Broadway
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
48617 [Accession number]
CHS-48617 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 719 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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